American Note Signals Open Door to Talk at Hague
Washington reports the American note declining to join the Hague Russian conference is not final, leaving room for further talks. Lloyd George says interpretation of the note shows ongoing interest in Russia’s economic reconstruction, with Genoa and The Hague debates shaping Allied strategy. Ambassadors and Italian officials react with surprise and disappointment at Washington’s stance.
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Hague
White ‘House
State Department
Lloyd George
Genoa
Russia
Associated Press
Ambassador Child
Lloyd. George
Schanzer
Italy
United States
Cassaro
United States of America
Childs
Hague Meet Discussed By Russian Delegation
The Russian delegation at the Hague meet for the political subcommittee, led by Foreign Minister Tehutch erin, asked about details of the proposed Hague gathering. He requested 24 hours to draft a reply to yesterday's proposals, and the sub-committee adjourned until tomorrow.
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Genoa
Tehutch‘erin
The
Hague
University letters to graduates urge further study
The registrar's office at the University of Kansas is mailing personal congratulatory letters to about 9,500 graduates this week. George Foster says he expects to reach at least 10,000 letters, a larger total than last year's 8,000. The letters invite graduates to continue their education and note the university stands ready to welcome them next fall.
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George Foster
University of Kansas
League Refuses Russian Question at Genoa Conference
The League of Nations counsel refused to discuss the Russian problem sent to Genoa. Dr. F Nansen urged against sending it to Genoa, calling it burying the issue, while Marquis Martenili of Italy argued the Genoa conference would fully consider the question.
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Geneva
Associated Press
League of Nations Today
Russia
F. Nansen
Genoa
Majectic Ma jesty last lap maiden voyage arrival
The Majestic the world's largest ship arrived off Sandy Hook at noon on the last lap of its maiden voyage across the Atlantic The ship weighs 56000 tons and made the crossing in five and a half days The craft received a rousing harbor reception and crowds gathered to greet it The ship is capable of twenty five knots and its officers expect higher speeds once engines loosen up Analysts believe it may surpass the Mauretania Trans Atlantic record.
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New York
Majestic
Sandy Hook
Atlantic
Mauretania
Recommendation to remove Galveston grain switching charge
Washington May 16 a recommendation to the Interstate Commerce Commission urged railroads handling grain shipments through Galveston to absorb the 1.75 switching charge per car rather than add it to freight rates. The move follows complaints from leading shippers in Kansas and other areas.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce © Commission
Galveston
Kansas
Kansas pharmacists attend state convention in Kansas City
A group of Lawrence druggists traveled to Kansas City for the Kansas Pharmaceutical Association convention. Harry Dick was slated to respond to the welcome address at the opening exercises. Attending were Walter Varnum R. R. Hickson Floyd Rankin and E. R. Hess.
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Lawrence
Kansas City
Kansas Pharmaceutical Association
Harry Dick
Walter Varnum
R. R. Hickson
Floyd Rankin
E. R. Hess
Eudora School Closes Friday Celebration Planned
The Eudora school will close Friday for a celebration event with a supper served and a program to follow in the evening.
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Eudora
Weather notes and temperature figures from midweek
A compact weather summary reports slightly warmer conditions tonight across western and central portions. It lists temperatures at 7 p.m yesterday, 2 p.m today, and compares maximum and minimum from yesterday and today, with a note that Glick and Schultz returned yesterday from a weekend in Kansas City.
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Glick
Schultz
Kansas City
Capper Attacks American Valuation in Tariff Debate
Washington May 16 Senator Capper Republican Kansas chairman of the State agricultural bloc charged that advocates of American valuation seek to raise rates and fool the people. He warned the system would conceal excessive protective duties and that it would hurt farmers by raising prices on many farm products while remaining focused on manufactured goods. He predicted supporters would push the plan despite the finance committee’s move to foreign valuation, aiming for an exclusive American market.
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Washington
Senate
Capper
Kansas
Senate Finance Committee
City Commission Discusses Bill Boards Objections
Informal objections to bill boards were raised with the Lawrence city commission last night. W. W. Cleland endorsed abolition of bill boards if feasible while a petition from nearby property owners sought cutting a hedge on Rhode Island and Barker to four feet to curb nuisance. The meeting was brief and mostly routine.
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Lawrence
City Commission
Bill Board
W. W. Cleland
Rhode Island
Barker
Fifteenth
Two Days of Normal Training Examinations Planned
Examinations will be held at the courthouse under County Superintendent O. J. Lane on Friday and Saturday starting at 8 o clock. Graduates of normal training courses in Lawrence Vinland and Baldwin high schools are eligible. Friday morning covers psychology and methods. afternoon arithmetic. Saturday includes geography and reading in the morning and grammar and methods in the afternoon. High school credits required for second and first grade certificates. No applicant has attended in four years, Lane says. At the White House today indica tions show Britain may extend a commission to investigate atrocities by Turks on Christian minorities in Asia Minor per the American relief administration report.
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Court House
O. J. Lane
Lawrence, Vinland and Baldwin
Lane
Ashington
White House
United L
Great Britain
Asia ‘Minor
State Encampment heads to Washington Post event
Gardner commands the Washington Post G AUR S J Churchill GC H Hoyt Led Lyon Peter Weeks EN Kuhn F Hatton and AL Harris depart for Wine field today to attend the state G AR Encampment. The encampment will last four days starting today.
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Heodate Gardner
Washington Post
G. Aur
S.J. Churchill
H. Hoyt
See the Superior Chevrolet Coupe
The fragment notes a Superior Chevrolet coupe reference. No clear event or context is evident beyond a possible car model mention.
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Chevrolet
Brother Learns Brother Is Alive in Armenia
Oscar Mamigonian, an Armenian student at the University, learns his 10 year old brother Horand Mamigonian is alive in Armenia after fears of Turkish massacre. He asks Registrar George Foster at Near East Relief in Harpoot to confirm and plans to bring the boy to the United States soon. Oscar has lived in the U S nine years and is a Shriner.
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Sir Conan Doyle
Oscar Mamigonian
Horand Mamigonian
Armenia
Oscar
George .O. Foster
Harpoot
Evidence ties Chicago bombers to labor war killings
Chicago officials report four men positively identified as slayers of two policemen after dynamiting two buildings in the labor war. Three confessed, including driver John Miller who fingered by prints and later confessed. he was secretly moved after an attempted poisoning. Kickham Scanlon to rule on trial assignments for Murphy and Maders.
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Chicago
Terrence Lyons
Thomas Clark
John Miller
Miller
Kickham Scanlon
The
Criminal Courts
Murphy
Maders
Geology lecture by Prof Blackwelder at University
Professor Eliot Blackwelder will address the public at 4 30 tomorrow afternoon in Room 203 Haworth Hall University. He will discuss The Relation of the Geologist to the Future Development of the Country in a general audience talk regarded as one of the year's best university lectures.
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Eliot Blackwelder
Haworth Hall
Blackwelder
No Change in Budgets for State Institutions
Topeka May 16. A conference with Governor Allen on budgets for the coming year reports no material changes. The state board of administration notes the budget will vary by no more than five percent from last year for any institution.
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Topeka
Allen
State Board of Administration
Dublin Sees Peace Effort Falter Before Final Report
Dublin reports a pessimistic mood after the Dail peace committee announced it would report to the Dail. Congress had failed to agree on any plan and faces a possible breakdown at tomorrow's meeting as reconsideration efforts were not resolved.
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Dublin
Associated Press
Peace Committee
Dail
Bremen bank watchman murdered in street car robbery
Henry Ah ring watchman for the Bremen bank was fatally shot in the forehead today by bandits who boarded a street car and robbed the bank messenger of a satchel containing 2000 dollars. This marked the ninth street car robbery within the last year.
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St. Louis
Henry Ahring
Bremen
Ahring
Steel chiefs summoned by committee over steel merger
Moses Taylor of Lackawanna Steel Corporation and Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel Corporation were summoned today to appear before the Lockwood investigating legislative committee for examination concerning the merger of the two concerns ratified earlier by their boards.
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Summon Steel
New York
Moses Taylor
Lackawanna Steel Corporation
Eugene Grace
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Lockwood Investigating Legislative Committee
Ratifie
Bandits Hold Up Bank As Posse Closely Chases them
The Missouri bandits who robbed the Citizen's Bank in Springfield yesterday eluded capture until one was seized seven miles northwest of Lebanon, Laclede county. Clyde Higgs, known to police, is jailed as a suspect. Detective Lamb wounded in the holdup identified a rebel image. A suitcase with 500 dollars in silver was found near Bradshaw flats as the search widened. A posse of about one hundred officers, farmers and national guardsmen, plus two mountain men, pressed the Ozark foot hills dawn to dusk.
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Springfield
Citizen’s Bank
Lebanon
Laclede County
Jones
Clyde Higgs
Lamb
Higgs
John Jones
Bradshaw Flats
Ozarks
Niadagua River
Missouri
Thomas Watkins, Jr
National Guard
KU Announces 50th Commencement June 2 to 5
Invitations go to alumni and friends for the fifty annual commencement at the University of Kansas from June 2 through 5. The baccalaureate sermon will be by Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka and the commencement address by Dr. David Starr Jordan. About 600 students have applied for degrees with nearly 100 from engineering and many from law and other schools.
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University of Kansas
Charles M. Sheldon
Topeka
The
Christian Herald
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford Jr
School of Engineering
School of Law
Pharmacy
Medicine
Fine Arts
College Graduate School
Wood seeks extension as Penn provost to January
Major General Wood, governor general of the Philippines, cabled Secretary Weeks requesting the University of Pennsylvania extend his Provost term to January 1. He said his Philippine work cannot conclude by September 1 without leaving vital reorganization features unfinished.
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Washington
Wood
Philippines
Weeks
University of Pennsylvania
Philippine Islands
Eighteenth annual I C A C meet at Baker University
The Eighteenth annual field and track meet and tennis tournament of the Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference will be held this week at Baker University athletic field in Baldwin City. Preliminary events start Friday May 19 at 1 30 p m with finals in track and tennis on Saturday May 20 at 1 30 p m Betmane representation is promised.
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Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Baker University Athletic
Baldwin City
Stuart Buys Eben Baldwin Farm Near Lake View
W A Stuart became owner of the Eben Baldwin country home near Lake View last week. He traded his interest in the American Plaster Cement Company's Seventh and Massachusetts building project for the Baldwin property. E Drenner currently tenants the Lake View farm, and Stuart plans to continue living in the city.
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Eben Baldwin Farm
W. A. Stuart
Lake View
Stuart
American Plaster Cement Company
Massachusetts
E. Drenner i
Lake. View Farm
Business colleges stress completion over quick diplomas
At the Lawrence Business College weekly Chamber of Commerce session, faculty and students discussed why many employers lure trainees away before completing studies. W. H. Quakenbush explained the diploma is not the aim, noting fewer than ten diplomas are granted yearly. He urged that courses be finished to earn credentials and that business training remains only the beginning of real work.
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W. H. Quakenbush
Chamber of Commerce
Business College
Lawrence Business College
Quakenbush
Odd Fellows
People’s State Bank
Lawrence National Bank
Lawrence
George O. Foster
W. A. McKeever
Qualenbush
E. S. Weatherby
Lawrence School
C. O. Bowman
H. T. Rice
Otho Sherwood
Hazel Griffits
Alica Bolen
Ivanis Club
Auxiliary Dues Light for Prospective Members
Women eligible for Auxiliary membership are told dues are modest at one dollar per year plus a initiation fee. There are few special assessments or donation demands and time commitments are kept minimal. Monthly meetings occur on the first Tuesday evenings with occasional special meetings and entertainments.
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Auxiliary
Notch on Express Messenger Gun Marks Calm Return
Harry Stewart a gray haired railroad express messenger returned home last night in Los Angeles after reporting a notch on his gun his eyesight failing but his duties continuing amid public curiosity about the incident and its meaning for the rail line security.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Harry Stewart
Railroad Express
Remarkable Radish With Five Fingers Gathers Attention
An Evoluting Radish grown by E. E. Westfall of J. Westfall fame attracts notice. The odd white icicle radish resembles a human hand with five distinct fingers and nail-like tips. Onlookers describe it as more rock than vegetable and note its striking shape.
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J. Westfall
E. E. Westfall
Big gas well lets loose all hosts in Eldorado
A crater 200 feet across blew out at the Wild Murphy gas well ten miles north of Eldorado on May 16 igniting nearby craters. The main well, yielding 75 million cubic feet daily, burned after the blast and extinguishing efforts were abandoned. Derrick and machinery were destroyed as the crew escaped. Geysers formed and gas seeped into local water wells, with hazards reminiscent of the Constainer gas well disaster two years earlier that claimed five lives.
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Eldorado
Ark
Here
Lawrence man Issues Call For Community Service Pep
Walter Martin, Lawrence native and former Kansas University football player, urged the Chamber of Commerce to back Community Service work. He cited Peoria as a model, where six years of programs include night athletics, night schools, and handicraft classes that blend recreation with skill development, gaining growing public support.
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Lawrence
Walter Martin
Lawrence Boy
K. U
Chamber of Commerce
Martin
Peoria
Needham Runs for Congress in Kansas Second District
Ottawa Kansas May 16 Needham Lane a sixth year master of the Kansas State Grange from southeast Franklin County on his birthplace farm announces his Democrat candidacy for congressman in the second district. He leaves as editorial manager of the Kansas Grange Monthly and is a national Grange lecturer and former national overseer. He has served as vice president of the Kansas Agricultural Council since its founding and attended the National Agricultural Conference in Washington last January.
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Ottawa
B. Needham
Lane
Kansas State Grange
Franklin
Needham
Kansas Grange Monthly
National Grange
Kansas Agricultural Council
National Agricultural Conference
Washington
British Troop Reduction in Ireland Announced
London May 16 Associated Press Sir Hamar Greenwood secretary for Ireland said in the House of Commons there would be no British troops in southern Ireland by week’s end except for those in Dublin and those assigned to coast defense, leaving a minimal force in place.
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Ireland
London
Associated Press
House of Commons
Hamar Greenwood
Dublin
Government moves to curb coal price rises
Washington May 16 report says steps are being taken by the government to forestall rising prices of bituminous coal at the mines. Secretary of Commerce Hoover has the matter under investigation and action in his charge at the White House.
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Washington
White House
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
New Cabinet Formed in Greece Under Stra tos
Athens May 16 reports a new Greek cabinet formed by Nicholas Stratossis to replace the resigned M. Gournaris administration. The change follows the resignation announced today as part of ongoing political realignment amid domestic tensions.
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Greece
Athens
Associated Press
Nicholas Stratos
M.gournaris
Corner Stone Laid For New Memorial High School
Hundreds of students patrons and officials witnessed the corner stone laying for the Liberty Memorial High School in Lawrence amid rain. Mayor George L. Kreeck Dean Raymond A. Kent and Chancellor Lindley spoke on the high school’s role in education and community future. A copper box with documents and school items was placed in the stone as Superintendent H. P. Smith read its contents. The ceremony ended with the junior high band playing The Star Spangled Banner.
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Memorial High School
F. H. Olney
C. EK. Birch
Paul R. Brooks
Macey Boughton
Lawrence
Goorge ‘L. Kreeck
C. B. Hosford
Kreeeck
Kreeck
Dean Reymond A. Kent
American High School
Dean Kent
Lindley
Wreans
H. P. Smith
Liberty Memorial High Schoo
Board of Education
Lawrence Public Schools
Webster's Little Gem Dictionary
Holy Bible
Liberty Memorial High
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